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JSR 355, JCP Executive Committee Merge, is now in JSR Review and is expected to complete in August 2012
3 EC Members lose their voting rights at January EC F2F Meeting
http://jcp.org/en/resources/EC_summaries
Following the upgrade to the JCP 2.8 Program, the Program Office has made available the following materials for Spec Leads on the Multimedia page of jcp.org:

The Program Office will host another call at 14:00 PST 16 February with special guest Martijn Verburg, JCP EC (alternate) representative for the London Java Community on the JCP SE/EE EC. Martijn also has updated the "Adopt a JSR" program pages on java.net, including the addition of a section for Spec Leads and EG members "I'm a Spec Lead / EG member - how do I bring 'Adopt a JSR' to our standard!". This has the potential to be a great resource for Spec Leads to leverage the Java developer community.

The JCP program is preparing to select the 2011 Star Spec Leads. Do you have candidates for 2011 Star Spec Leads? Please send email to heather at jcp dot org, if you would like to nominate a Spec Lead for this honor. Please send your nomination before 15 January 2012 and include a couple of sentences in support of your nomination and keep in mind the selection criteria: http://jcp.org/en/press/news/star2
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The Java Community Process (JCP) program has seen a dramatic rise in worldwide participation. Read more here...

JSR 348, Towards a new version of the Java Community Process has passed the Final Approval Ballot by EC vote, so JCP 2.8 is now in effect as of 18 October 2011. See the JCP 2.8 documents and the overview of JCP 2.8.

Read a news article on JCP 2.8 here...

Listen to the JCP 2.8 for Spec Leads call and follow along with the materials.

Patrick has been busy lately giving his perspective on the JCP. You can find his interviews here:

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